-- Water on earth may fill them in, but there's no water on the moon to do the same there.
-- Craters on the earth get worn down by rain, snow, wind, hail, etc. But there's no rain, snow, wind, hail, or etc. on the moon to do the same to them there, so those there don't get worn down.
-- The lack of atmosphere on the moon allows larger meteorite strikes, whereas most meteorites burn up completely or almost completely when passing through earth's atmosphere.
You see few craters on the Earth. Between the fact that 75% of the Earth is covered with water, and wind, rain, earthquakes, landslides. volcanoes and continental drift, the Earth's surface changes fairly quickly. From a geologic perspective, of course.
The Moon's surface is dead. There are no volcanoes, no major moonquakes, no oceans. No weather; no rain, no wind. When a meteoroid strikes the Moon, it leaves a crater - and the ONLY way that crater gets disturbed is by another crater.
You can bet that for every crater you can see on the Moon, there once were equivalent impacts on the Earth. But the Moon's craters are forever. The Earth is always rebuilding itself.
The earths crust us thicker than the moons....due to the craters
Craters are formed by impacts from objects from space, such as meteorites.
No,ceres has no moons
yes, the earths craters were made a long time ago. Some craters are volcanos. They just pop up
Many planets and moons have craters because they do not have any significant erosive or geologic forces to destroy them. Most of the craters of Earth have eroded away, been buried under sediment, or destroyed by plate tectonics. Some on Venus likely eroded away or were covered by lava flows. The Planet Mercury and most moons in the solar system do not have these forces to destroy or cover craters.
what of neptune's moons have craters
no moons but have big craters
Mercury has craters and mountains but no moons.
Craters don't hit moons. Craters are the results of meteorites hitting moons.
The earths crust us thicker than the moons....due to the craters
because the moon does not have a equater like the earth to protact it self ;)
they are called craters.
the moons craters were made by comets an meteors crashing into it :p :0 ;D
The craters are formed because of rock and iron hitting the moons surface. When the rock and iron hit the earths surface damage is caused to trees, roads and that sort of thing.
yes its like the moons
ya why?
craters